Sentences with phrase «rather than pride»

These decisions become an issue of return on investment rather than pride of ownership if the assumption that appreciation will cover the cost of maintenance and upgrades is no longer valid.

As a law student soon entering the legal profession, I would prefer to be reminded of this element rather than pride.

As such there is nothing wrong in holding a competition on the qualitative presentation of the yoga - asanas... The presentation must be very natural with innocence and humility rather than pride and arrogance.

You claim Wengers weak mentality has rubbed off on the players yet you ignore the merc attitude of Alexis, Alexis has dragged the mentality down to cash rather than pride for club.

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But rather than let Oracle die, he swallowed his pride and «went out and got some better managers to run the company,» says Wilson.

Rather than expanding locally, Farley simply opened offices wherever prospective employees happened to live, which is why Pride's non-New England locations are in the random states of Washington, Nevada, Florida, and California.

Have you ever 2Timothy3: 1 - 5 It speak about in the last day critical time hard to deal with will be here.2 men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,self - assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, 3 having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self control, fierce, without love of goodness, 4 betrayers, headstrong, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of god, 5 having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power, and from these turn away.God speak of these thing occurring in our day.

The Scriptures held pride of place in this matrix but in a conjunctive rather than disjunctive mode.

It reveals how completely the church has been ruled by the pride and opinion of men rather than by the Holy Spirit.

It shows how completely the pride and opinion of men, rather than the Holy Spirit, rule in the consciousness of Christian people.

Though self - giving does sometimes mean denying my own wants (most of the time, when my children are sick), it often means living like a hedonist, drinking deep of what others offer me rather than refusing out of fear (because I don't want to feel controlled) or pride (because I always want to be the one who gives).

This attitude shows how completely the pride and opinion of men, rather than the Holy Spirit, rule in the consciousness of Christian people.

2) For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self - assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, 3) having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self - control, fierce, without love of goodness, 4) betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, 5) having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away.

2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self - assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, 3 having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self - control, fierce, without love of goodness, 4 betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away.

Podhoretz has his own twinges of pride: He writes as if the neoconservatives, those Family members who reacted to the late «60s by moving right rather than left, supplied Ronald Reagan with everything he needed to think about communism, although Reagan often said that the writer who most influenced him was Whittaker Chambers.»

I think one part of this came out of the strict religious traditions that highlighted hypocrisy, exhibited pride in self - ability to carry out religious ordinances or «procedures», and were founded in mere tradition rather than from some higher power or actual scriptural foundation.

Second, he defined the basic sin as pride rather than sensuality.

(2) Again, we can learn from Niebuhr to define the basic sin as pride rather than sensuality.

If a new building program is for the pride of its membership rather than the effectiveness of its ministry, then the church is in danger of a bad building program.

Then I would hope that someone would point out that I have a pride issue, rather than let me remain in it.

they would respect the injury of those at the trade center and relocate their proposed center... offering opportunities of reconciliation... rather than «we think it is best...» the spirit of false pride is in Islam as well as Christianity... we must be ever alrert!

What I mean here is, is the reason he (and you Bob) is declaring that because all he sees (except for his dad / mom) from «christians» is judgment, selfishness, spitefulness, personal gain, pride, etc, etc. rather than what he should be seeing, forgiveness, mercy, justice, love, understanding, patience, Love, Truth, Jesus.

Rather than an experience of humility, fasting has become an experience of pride.

No, the real source of the soul's disorder is pride, «the vice which made the soul prefer to imitate God rather than to serve God».6 Now pride is a failure in love's proper ordering.

There is every reason to believe that a life of material austerity, of pride and pleasure in the quality of workmanship rather than in the amount consumed, a life lived in a warm and supportive community, would be far healthier for our society, ecologically and sociologically, than our present dominant pattern of ever - accelerating consumption.

It is no exaggeration to say that, rather than values, they are «anti-values»; concretely, the three spirits of a godless world listed in the Bible: the concupiscence of the eyes, the concupiscence of the flesh, and the pride of life (cf 1 Jn 2:16).

As I thought about how to apply these teachings practically, a lot of strategies came to mind — putting the needs of others before my own, buying less and giving more, humbling myself when engaged in political or theological debates, embracing rather than complaining about those «one - way relationships,» praying for others more sincerely, saying «yes» a little more often, working on that ubiquitous sense of entitlement and pride that keeps me from going the extra mile.

I am the man who stands on the altar to tell people to understand all knowledge rather than allow pride to deprive them of the benefits of spiritual enlightenment.

Overlooking the bombast, Balentine, while acknowledging that Elihu's discourse «increases, rather than diminishes,» the tensions of the book, still finds merit in Elihu's explanation of Job's suffering: the real answer to suffering is human pride.

Rather than stimulating Jewish identity, observance, and pride, the national Jewish organizations have promoted Jewish ignorance, indifference, and insecurity by their determined campaign to eliminate religion from public life.

The company prides itself on working directly with suppliers and manufacturers where possible rather than distributors.

The rabble down the road are very proud of their man and it is a source of pride that one of their own has made it to the High Court rather than the youth offenders prison.

What a terrifying vision of the future of football we've been served up this week.AC Milan, once the pride of a powerful and thriving seria A now reduced to shadow boxing against a really not that great United.All because they deserted their natural (and rather beautiful) defensive style of football to join the circus, brought in foreign players (especially brazilians) who think jogging back to defend is beneath them and generally put two fingers up to Italy's historic football traditions.Much good as it done them, and what a boring game?I concede that a lot of football fans nowadays do nt remember anything before the cheque book league but even they must have been struck by the sheer mind numbing pointlessness of it.Even the stewards were asleep by half time.As for the porto match well all that can be said is that they made the gooners look like an half decent well balanced football team, no mean achievement when you think about it.At least we, ve had the pleasure of listening to all those gooners and Mancs waffling on about how great they are which is always hilarious.Especially the stuff about Rooney, just wait till the World Cup when some Italian or South American defender takes him under his wing for half an hour and then see how great he is.If he can survive the WC without being sent off it will be a miracle.All the recent hype has done him no favours at all.Not that the World Cup really inspires these days, its glory days are long over and it's become a competition decided by referees rather than great play.Bear that in mind if Roons has to take the walk of shame, it's not his fault, someone told him he was a truly great player like Bobby Charlton or George Best.The problem is he looks like he believes them.

That would be good news for Derby's bank balance, but the bad news is City see Hughes as a capture to play now rather than return him to Pride Park.

But at a time when so unfashionable Leicester City appear to be marching towards that gloriously unexpected Championship (if I may use the term correctly rather than a euphemism for the 2nd Division), perhaps the old Greek phrase which might loosely be translated as «pride and punishment» could be forgiven.

«There's kind of a pride, a feeling of we know this works overall as a package, so let's get the certification rather than look at it under the microscope.

Eric Pickles, the new Chairman of the Conservative Party, talks of his desire for people to feel pride rather than embrassed or ashamed of voting ConservativeDaily Telegraph 02/03/2009

According to him, Nigeria will regain its economic pride if youths become more productive by creating their own businesses and rather than running to other countries for greener pastures.

«Because of the pride on how we tackled terrorism and defeated Boko Haram terrorists through our gallant troops and partners in the twilight of the previous administration, which is the reason I have insisted on open and public trial of my stewardship rather than secret trial in the court as being canvassed by my prosecutors.»

«Because of the pride on how we tackled terrorism and defeated Boko Haram terrorists through our gallant troops and partners in the twilight of the previous administration, that is the reason I have insisted on open and public trial of my stewardship rather than secret trial in the court as being canvassed by my prosecutors.»

A Democratic primary campaign in which both candidates prided themselves on civility and debating the issues, rather than stooping to personal attacks, took a fractious turn yesterday, as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders called Hillary Clinton unqualified to be president.

[3] At the time of the Piltdown «discovery,» human ancestors had been found only in Europe, and there was substantial national pride at stake in believing Britain to be birthplace of modern humans, rather than southern Africa.

I suggest we carry our scars with pride, knowing they have built us rather than defied us.

Also, if you prefer more of a creamy texture rather than oily for your child, African Pride also makes a moisturizer that should work just as fine!

You should show nothing but pride for the person you're with and you should be bragging rather than hiding them from your friends.

LunchClick gives you one curated match per day at 12 noon, and prides itself on quality rather than quantity.

The company prides itself on «putting the social back in social media,» and challenges users to base their opinions on personalities rather than photos.

In this and his other war - related films Pride of the Marines (1945) and Task Force (1949), writer / director Daves emphasized the anxieties and tribulations of the individual soldier, rather than resorting to gaudy Hollywood heroics.

Eventually, her skating routines begin to get lower scores than she deserves in a sport that prides itself on delicate Ice Princesses that make the sport seem effortless and pretty, rather than Harding's more athletic style.

So much the epitome of stiff - upper - lipped Englishman - from his Darcy in the BBC's mid-90s Pride and Prejudice to his Oscar - winning turn as the tongue - tied King George VI in The King's Speech - he looks like he'd rather die than approach a mystic for advice.